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Cinema of Collaboration: Defa Coproductions and International Exchange in Cold War Europe

Cinema of Collaboration: Defa Coproductions and International Exchange in Cold War Europe

Hardcover

Series: Film Europa, Book 21

Film StudiesGeneral World HistoryGerman History

ISBN10: 1789203430
ISBN13: 9781789203431
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Oct 3 2019
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

From their very inception, European cinemas undertook collaborative ventures in an attempt to cultivate a transnational Film-Europe. In the postwar era, it was DEFA, the state cinema of East Germany, that emerged as a key site for cooperative practices. Despite the significant challenges that the Cold War created for collaboration, DEFA sought international prestige through various initiatives. These ranged from film exchange in occupied Germany to partnerships with Western producers, and from coproductions with Eastern European studios to strategies for film co-authorship. Uniquely positioned between East and West, DEFA proved a crucial mediator among European cinemas during a period of profound political division.

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